Retrospective: Oshima Nagisa

Document author(s):

Audie Bock and Ian Buruma

Document source:

Hong Kong Film Festival

Document language:

Chinese and English

Document type:

booklet

Number of pages:

23

Document name subject:

Nagisa Oshima

Document contains:

bibliography, box info, filmography, and production co

Related films:

Ai to kibo no machi (A town of love and hope) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1959
Nihon no yoru to kiri (Night and fog in Japan) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1960
Seishun zankoku monogatari (Cruel story of youth) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1960
Taiyo no hakaba (The sun's burial) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1960
Shiiku (The catch) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1961
Amakusa shiro tokisada (Shiro Amakusa, the Christian rebel) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1962
Yunbogi no nikki (Yunbogi's diary) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1965
Etsuraku (The pleasures of the flesh) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1965
Hakuchu no torima (Violence at noon) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1966
Ninja bugei-cho (Band of Ninja) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1967
Nihon shunka-ko (A treatise on Japanese bawdy songs) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1967
Muri shinju: nihon no natsu (Japanese summer: double suicide) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1967
Koshikei (Death by hanging) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1968
Shinjuku dorobo nikki (Diary of a Shinjuku burglar) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1968
Kaette kita yopparai (Three resurrected drunkards) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1968
Shonen (Boy) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1969
Tokyo senso sengo hiwa (He died after the war) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1970
Gishiki (The ceremony) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1971
Natsu no imoto (Dear summer sister) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1972
Ai no koriida (In the realm of the senses) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan; France — 1976
Ai no borei (Empire of passion) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan; France — 1978
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan; New Zealand; Great Britain — 1983

Film country(ies):

France, Great Britain, Japan, and New Zealand

Film language(s):

English and Japanese

Film production company:

Argos Films, Art Theatre Guild of Japan Co. Ltd., Asahi National Broadcasting Company, Cineventure Productions London, National Film Trustees, Oshima Productions, Palace Pictures, Shibata Organisation Incorporated, Shochiku Kabushiki Kaisha, Sozosha, Taiho, and Toei Company Ltd.

Film genre(s):

Adaptation, Animation, Biographical, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Erotic, Family, Feature, Historical, Juvenile delinquency, Martial arts, Melodrama, Romance, Short, Social problem, War, Women, and Youth

Film subject(s):

Abe, Sada, 1905- -- Biography -- Drama
Abused children -- Japan -- Drama
Accident victims -- Japan -- Drama
Adultery -- Japan -- Drama
African American soldiers -- Japan -- Drama
Amakusa, Shiro, 1621 or 2-1638 -- Drama
Amateur films -- Japan -- Drama
Boys -- Japan -- Drama
Boys -- Korea -- Drama
British -- Indonesia -- Java -- Drama
British -- Japan -- Drama
Brothers and sisters -- Japan -- Drama
Capital punishment -- Japan -- Drama
Child labor -- Korea -- Drama
Children -- Korea -- Drama
Crime -- Japan -- Drama
Culture conflict -- Japan -- Drama
Diaries -- Korea -- Drama
Erotic songs -- Japan -- Drama
Executions and executioners -- Japan -- Drama
Extortion -- Japan -- Drama
Family life -- Japan -- Drama
Folk songs, Japanese -- Japan -- Drama
Gangs -- Japan -- Drama
Gangs -- Japan -- Osaka -- Drama
Ghosts -- Japan -- Drama
Hanging -- Japan -- Drama
High school students -- Japan -- Attitudes -- Drama
Husband and wife -- Japan -- Drama
Ii, Yunbogi -- Film and video adaptations
Incest -- Japan -- Drama
Japan -- History -- 1185-1600 -- Drama
Japan -- History -- 1941-1945 -- Drama
Japan -- History -- 1945- -- Drama
Japan -- History -- Attempted Mongol invasions, 1274-1281 -- Drama
Japan -- History -- Kamakura period, 1185-1333 -- Drama
Japan -- History -- Shimabara Uprising, 1637-1638 -- Drama
Japan -- Politics and government -- Drama
Japan -- Relations -- Great Britain -- Drama
Japan -- Relations -- Korea -- Drama
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Drama
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1960-1969 -- Drama
Japan -- Social conditions -- Drama
Justice, Administration of -- Japan -- Drama
Juvenile delinquents -- Japan -- Drama
Juvenile delinquents -- Japan -- Osaka -- Drama
Korea -- Relations -- Japan -- Drama
Korea -- Social conditions -- Drama
Koreans -- Japan -- Drama
Koreans -- Japan -- Social conditions -- Drama
Male friendship -- Japan -- Drama
Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Drama
Martial arts -- Japan -- Drama
Martyrs -- Japan -- Nagasaki-ken -- Drama
Mistaken identity -- Japan -- Drama
Money -- Japan -- Drama
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Japan -- Drama
Murder -- Investigation -- Japan -- Drama
Murder -- Japan -- Drama
Murderers -- Japan -- Drama
Nagasaki-ken (Japan) -- History -- Drama
Namura, Itoko -- Film and video adaptations
Ninja -- Japan -- Drama
Oe, Kenzaburo, 1935- -- Film and video adaptations
Okinawa Island (Japan) -- Relations -- Japan -- Drama
Osaka (Japan) -- Social conditions -- Drama
Parent and child -- Japan -- Drama
Persecution -- Japan -- Nagasaki-ken -- Drama
Pigeons -- Japan -- Drama
Political activists -- Japan -- Drama
Poor children -- Korea -- Drama
Prejudices -- Japan -- Drama
Prisoners of war -- Indonesia -- Java -- Drama
Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Drama
Prostitutes -- Japan -- Biography -- Drama
Prostitutes -- Japan -- Drama
Prostitutes -- Japan -- Osaka -- Drama
Racism -- Japan -- Drama
Rape victims -- Japan -- Drama
Rapists -- Japan -- Drama
Sex -- Japan -- Drama
Sex addiction -- Japan -- Drama
Sex crimes -- Japan -- Drama
Sex crimes -- Japan -- History -- Drama
Sex offenders -- Japan -- Drama
Shinjuku-ku (Tokyo, Japan) -- Social life and customs -- Drama
Shirato, Sanpei, 1932- -- Film and video adaptations
Slums -- Japan -- Osaka -- Social conditions -- Drama
Social conflict -- Japan -- Drama
Student movements -- Japan -- Drama
Students -- Japan -- Drama
Suicidal behavior -- Japan -- Drama
Suicide -- Japan -- Drama
Suicide pacts -- Japan -- Drama
Suicide victims -- Japan -- Drama
Swindlers and swindling -- Japan -- Drama
Takeda, Taijun, 1912-1976. Hakuchu no torima -- Film and video adaptations
Teenagers -- Japan -- Attitudes -- Drama
Teenagers -- Japan -- Drama
Teenagers -- Japan -- Sexual behavior -- Drama
Thieves -- Japan -- Drama
Tokyo (Japan) -- Social life and customs -- Drama
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Japan -- Drama
Van der Post, Laurens. Seed and the sower -- Film and video adaptations
Villages -- Japan -- Drama
Wealth -- Psychological aspects -- Japan -- Drama
Women -- Crimes against -- Japan -- Drama
Women murderers -- Japan -- Biography -- Drama
World War, 1939-1945 -- Indonesia -- Java -- Drama
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Drama
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Drama
Young men -- Japan -- Attitudes -- Drama
Young men -- Japan -- Drama
Young men -- Japan -- Sexual behavior -- Drama
Youth -- Japan -- Drama
Youth -- Japan -- Osaka -- Drama
Youth -- Japan -- Sexual behavior -- Drama

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